Sarah Totton’s short fiction has appeared in Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007 (Rich Horton, ed.), Writers of the Future XXII, and Polyphony 5. She is the Regional Winner (for Canada & the Caribbean) in the 2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Her collection, Animythical Tales, is forthcoming in 2010 from Warren Lapine’s Fantastic Books. One of the themes [...]
Sherlock Holmes is one of the most cerebral detectives in literary history — not that you’d know it from the eponymous movie that opened this weekend, in which he seems much more like a boxer who happens to own a violin.
Cherie Priest’s sixth novel is her best. With a keen eye for detail and description, Priest quickly draws readers into her alternate world placing the story in a particular, if imaginary, time and place.Boneshaker proves to be one of 2009’s best novels and is not to be missed
Steve was just north of Chaffeys Lock driving back from Rachel’s house in Ottawa when he saw the snake on the road. If he’d been with Rachel he wouldn’t have stopped. Rachel wouldn’t have noticed it, but if he had pointed it out to her, she would have shut her eyes and ordered him to drive on…
If you’re a steampunk fan, heres hoping your holidays were full of cogs, gears, and brass pipes! If you didn’t get quite enough, though, we’ve got a few links to round out the experience.
This week’s links include the sad tale of a former gaming superstar, good news for the gaming industry, and tips on giving your fourth edition D&D game that “Old School” feel.
Nobody believes in Santa, so Santa refuses to go anywhere on Christmas Eve. Klatu the elf goes into town with his little reindeer, Gortzen, to give humans one last chance to prove themselves worthy of Christmas.
This story was based on the very first such note: about twenty years ago, a friend of the family told me he’d eaten deadly nightshade, and I asked him what it was like, and wrote down the answer on a bit of envelope.
The latest episode of Flash Forward, “A561984” relies heavily on mythology. As usual, the episode features two primary story lines.
October Daye, the narrator/protagonist on Rosemary and Rue is a welcome addition to the ranks of urban fantasy’s hardboiled female leads. She’s tough and smart, complicated, sympathetic, maddening, and believable. Not everything in this debut novel from Seanan McGuire is, however, as believable as its leading character…
